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201305020015Let us cease being you and me ~ poetry by Pedro Salinas

Consider this: let us ceasebeing you and me.Leave your sleeping body,leave my body at your side,abandon them.Leave your name and mine,abandon this painful distance between us,and let us take a breakfrom ourselves, with ourselves;let us pretend that we werestill together, but in different forms.Now without bodies and without names,let us try new shapes,beings, to see if we can live betterin something else.Let us try being trees;two trees that, despite havingtrunks far apart from one another,will search for one another from above,will find one another with their leaves,will embrace one another with their flowers.Let us try being wavesthat run one after the other,separate and playful,until finally in the warm sandthey cease being two.And let us go even further than physical matter.We can be two silences, so close togetherthat no one can tell that thesilence around themis double, because two voices,quieting themselves, form asilence so they can better understand one another.And if you want even more, we can tryto be light, you one ray, me another ray,you one half, me the other half,that in order for light to form, it needs both of usand it contains both of us.And we can stillescape further!Pretend that we don't exist,live in a prenatal worldwhere being together isto be immensely lost,one in the other, indivisible,like the sea and the sky, beforeGod separated them.

And later you will see how wonderful it will beto return to ourselves,to find myself with you,with me, despite the pain,with your voice and with my name,You'll see, you'll see, what a miracleit is to see each other, to touch each other,you'll see what a revelationit is to see ourselves, to really see ourselves again,in these sad facesthat reveal how our souls had lived apart.Having pretended that our lovenever existed,how genuine will it now always be for us!What a bondwill be born, so happy,so secure, of this goodbye.